Fossil-based comparative analyses reveal ancient marine ancestry erased by extinction in ray-finned fishes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 441-450

  Betancur R, Ricardo ^a,b   Ortí, Guillermo ^c   Pyron, Robert Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinopterygii; Diversification; Ecological transitions; Marine and freshwaters; Neontology; Palaeontology; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Phylogeny; State dependent diversification

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; FINFISH; FOSSIL RECORD; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEONATE; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ACTINOPTERYGII; PISCES;

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FISH; FOSSIL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FISHES; FOSSILS; FRESH WATER; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84927125660     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12423     Document Type: Article

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